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When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
Toddlers are thugs example #89654585124
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
It's been enraging to see the obvious fact - that the St George's flag in some contexts is a far right hate symbol, be deliberately ignored by our political class. It's not like they won't know!
They're using the St George's cross like a socially acceptable swastika just like they use 'biological' as a socially acceptable discrimination.
Our cats are cuddling. ❤️
Another Filton 24 political prisoner, Muhammed Umer Khalid needs our support! Pro Palestine activist Muhammed Umer Khalid is currently detained at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in alleged connection with RAF Brize Norton. He is being denied his basic religious rights in prison. cont. below
I feel like there should be at least some concerted attempt by professionals to explain how something like this could possibly happen, rather than the eye rolling and quiet “what the fuck”s we’re currently getting
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Majd's family have managed to get a new tent, but still need to get south, and quadcopters are attacking people on the roads. Can you help them to afford a wheelchair so they can move Majd as quietly as possible? gofund.me/2f942387 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #SkyAid
I wonder exactly how far down the fascist, refugee-terrorising, trans-eradicating, ableist/ eugenicist pipeline we have to get before the likes of Paul Brand, Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot, Ian Dunt, Otto English will actually acknowledge that Starber/Streeting/Cooper/Reeves are dangerous extremists?
1/ Most of Whitehorse turned out for a concert by 54-40 this weekend. Nobody wearing masks of course. Even though that "bug" is still doing rounds. And an estimated 1 in every 122 people in the three northern territories is currently infected with COVID. @moriartylab.bsky.social
In answer to the second question... In the US, yes. In the UK, yes also. 😟
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
Can you imagine how hard he's going to go in on poppies this year. He's going to have such a big poppy.
Sky News reporter Shamaan Freeman-Powell had her heritage questioned by racists whilst doing a piece to camera in the febrile environment whipped up around immigration. Apropos of nothing, here's her colleague Ali—granddaughter of the 6th Earl Fortescue—chasing migrants in the English Channel.
Stripping Palestinians of the ability to enter a safe country while being denied the most basic human rights at home is blatant collective punishment and a clear deprivation of dignity and humanity. Millions are forced to live under occupation, without water, electricity, or
It speaks volumes that this government feels it needs someone as comms director who previously carried out "reputation management" for the likes of Russia, Kazakstan and Sex Matters. I'm all for judging people by the company they keep...
George flags have been popping up on M25 motorway bridges. Today they reached the approach road to the hospital. Where 48% of staff were born overseas, serving a population that’s 74% white British. Really concerned where this is heading
But, it's not that surprising - and journalists need to be much clearer in identifying this as an ongoing pattern of behaviour, rather than seeing this stuff as an aberration... bsky.app/profile/bedf...
Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
This made my day today. Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk
I switched on the TV earlier and Sky News was on. From the way they talk about these "migrant hotel" protests you'd think that millions of people had been involved. It just feels like the media and political class are trying to engender more hostility towards refugees (not that this is new).
This is how you do it, Jeremy. #GreenParty
Labour are embracing right wing populism. This isn’t bad comms, it’s deliberate strategy. They’re banking on their natural supporters being coerced into going along with it, and their media outriders not being able or willing to grasp what’s happening, thus manufacturing consent for the shift.
The incomprehension here would be touching if it wasn’t so incapacitating. This is who they are. They’re literally showing you who they are. At what point do you believe the evidence of your own eyes and recognise them as the dangers that they are?
“Labour’s summer has been defined by indifference and inaction, as a government elected on a landslide only a year ago acts as if it were a tired spectator helpless to the political winds - or whichever way Farage and the media blow them.” My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Christian Varnisher Father Of Groom Germany, Marriages, 1558-1929 #shiny
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is expanding his far-right network into Latin America. Through the Center for Fundamental Rights, Vox, and CPAC events in Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, his regime is pushing anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-gender agendas across the region. Read more:
Stank Pabbgertoch United States, Census, 1930
Telling people to get involved in Your Party to make it less transphobic isn’t really much different from telling people to stay in Labour for the same reason imo.
HISTORY IS BEING MADE TODAY Today, the largest civilian flotilla ever assembled has set sail from Spain, carrying hope and humanitarian aid to Gaza. People from 44 nations, united on dozens of boats, are defying the blockade with solidarity and courage. (From #GlobalSumudFlotilla on IG & Twitter)
Excellent clarity here from @zoejardiniere.bsky.social. We’re walking ourselves off a cliff, when we consider tossing away our ECHR protections. First you gleefully tear up protections for “them”: Muslims, refugees, trans people, etc. Then you discover you’ve torn up your own. #DontBeFooled
In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I've recorded a new song for Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axj...
you ordered that patriot kit to scare away the foreigns yet? yeah I got it. we're you get it? misis got it online, some place called temu... Tim who? dunno she just said temu did it cheaper 🤷 sounds like a good bloke...
W.E.B. DuBois described the American Civil War as a “General Strike” because of the 100s of thousands of enslaved people who stopped their work, many of whom also joined the Union Army. Slavery offers a powerful example of what it looks like when the law prioritizes "property" over human beings.
additionally, to have absolute spanners like Paul Mason trying to imply that labour are in any way the party the progressives need to back to stop reform seems ironic when starmer is doing everything but gluing A Farage mask over his face and demanding people call him Keirgel Starmage.
Portland Communications? Alastair Campbell's employers? Hm... www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Saw this circulating and wanted to thank @mattkennard.bsky.social for the accuracy of the reply.
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Starmer's Government is increasingly shifting right, towards far-right. Picking Allan for his PR Head is a blatant demonstration of that. He and his Home Secretary also seem to be competing to demonise asylum seekers most and show the greatest solidarity with racists assaulting Black and Brown folk.
Some words of support for the UK’s Black and Asian populations - 1 in 6 people - that racism won’t be tolerated might be useful from our government right now but no they’re waving 🏴 flags.
It astonishes me how parents are perfectly able to understand "the kid brought something home from school and now we're all sick" except for COVID for some reason
we did some tussling this morning and now he's absolutely zonked out
US bans visas for Palestinian passport holders - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-bans-visas-palestinian-passport-holders
Authority? Interesting choice of words. "Authority" wasn't what won Labour power. It was desperation to end 14 years of increasingly corrupt, harsh and heartless Tory rule. It was the belief that Labour surely HAD to be better, hopefully much better. Labour voters were conned.
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
Every day, more evidence. Starmer and the front bench are effectively leading a Reform Government in all but name. :(
Small potatoes next to the pain it inflicts on other people if its let, but one of the tragedies of fascism is the way it eats people's brains - the friends and family members and loved ones lost to a politics of despair and sadism, diminished terribly by its spectral resentments and paranoias
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
Perhaps not being reported in the media YET as they're awaiting a formal statement from the Prime Minister to say he agrees with Musk. I mean given Starmer's and Cooper's overtly racist, xenophobic and jingoistic statements today, I'd not be surprised.
I doubt people in South Africa want him back though.
Just a little man #art #sketchbook #frog
Genuine quote here from the British Prime Minister: "I always sit in front of the Union Jack. I’ve been doing it for years.” Does he mean when he's watching Eastenders, or having his tea? What kind of flag-shagging bollocks is this? Message to the outside world: Britain has lost its fucking mind
absolutely terrible news
How exactly is voting for Labour stopping Reform when Labour are implementing Reform policies left and right and appointing anti trans campaigners to senior posts despite manifesto promises to the contrary?
being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering
Russia jammed the GPS on the top EU leader’s plane. The pilots navigated using paper maps to land the plane. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Not seen a single mainstream article about a guy threatening to shank kids in central London yesterday. Wonder why??
Monday bunday!! The first day of September, Peanut’s birth month. It’s hard to believe he is 9 this month. Truly living his grumpy old bun life. He’s always been a grumpy bun, more interested in naps and snacks than zooming around, but he gets to embody being old with it too these last few years
A representative of the British state broadcaster and its nominally left-wing Prime Minister both fulsomely supporting the idea that refugees are a risk to "our daughters". The fascists own the discourse, and if our institutions aren't entirely fash yet they soon will be.
Keir Starmer was on 5Live with Matt Chorley earlier and said he has a St George's Cross in his flat and then he said "I'm a supporter of flags" hahahahahaha. Imagine that in Alan Partridge's voice. Exactly, you can't, Partridge would never be that saa-aa-aaaad.
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
Honestly, although Reform's "policies" and what they want to do to the UK are diabolical, they are also disorganised and mutually distrustful. I suspect they wouldn't be able to implement half of what they want. Problem is Labour commands the infrastructure to achieve all the vile things they want.
The timing of this is likely because of the EHRC’s guidance which will undoubtedly be illegal needing some serious comms as they openly declare war on us trans folk.
UK government hoping they can just 'trust me bro' Ireland lol
She's only a couple steps from joining them. :(
Restricting, let alone blocking, family reunification, already highly restrictive and limited, is, without any question, going to just mean more people, particularly women and children, are forced into making dangerous crossings, which inevitably means more loss of life. 3/ bsky.app/profile/dani...
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Somebody ask Starmer how he'd feel about a trans person living on his street -"Well, I believe they should be treated with dignity and respect as long as they don't set foot outside their door"
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Yvette Cooper instead of cracking down on racist mobs outside the homes of vulnerable people, is cracking down on the victims.
Yeah, fuck this.
Don’t ignore that the bbc asked a racist question here
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
If the witch hunts restarted tomorrow, Keir Starmer would say people have legitimate concerns about women who can float on water
If you care about the climate, you *really* need to understand what went wrong in COVID. Then you will understand why the empire-building mindset responsible for medicine's "very big mistake" that wasted "an enormous number of lives" must be completely excluded from any and all decisions on climate.
It looks like the ruling classes of country after country have looked at a choice between a) “mostly neoliberalism, but now without you” and b) “mostly neoliberalism but with Hitler, and you get to stay on as the tame opposition” and they have all been palm-slamming button b) like its Hungry Hippos.
A pattern here in white people countries: - Financial crisis 2008 destroys existing economic model - Sensible politicians cycle through different guises, like the T-1000 in the molten steel getting more and more melted - All slowly realise the only form that might survive is “Authoritarian Fascist”
Blueskys core audience is liberal and leftist users and they are the ones driving much of the posting activity. If the platform shifts to accommodate right wing users that base is likely to migrate back to other sites leaving Bluesky without its main draw. This is the niche it fills.
Yvette, I'm confused.
It's all so upside down, isn't it? :(
Starmer is nominally a member of my Synagogue. That type of language would get a member expelled
If by "wild" you mean "overtly racist" and also "misogynist" then yes, the Prime Minister is both.
Christ, the actual question and answer are even worse than the BBC report makes them look, if that’s at all possible
A reminder that this is who Sex Matters really are: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
Allan? Starmer? Both?
See also the tactics of US white evangelical hate group Moms for Liberty. Even before Trump's second term, they succeeded in getting libraries and schools to withdraw LGBT+ and anti-racist materials from schools and public libraries. Same tactics, ideology, and connections to far right globally. 😣
GC = Trans-hostile activists.
The ship is already on course to sink. It's only a matter of time. "Your Party" will be the tiniest footnote in the history of British Politics. The Monster Raving Loony Party will have more coverage.
Glad to see this is being recognized by even more institutions. Every scholar and professor who protected Israel, who tried to criminalize and harass the encampments, is criminally complicit in this.
"have we tried telling them to fuck off with a nicer font? Surely that'll work!"
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Mx Xs 